How does anyone get any kind of iThing and not activate the "Find my iThing" feature? The stolen device is obviously connected to some kind of network or he wouldn't be getting the PhotoStream on his phone. If he had turned on that feature, he'd just about have the freakin' street address where the device is located.

Benevolent Misanthrope:RexTalionis: Mentat: I know we were all young and dumb once, but any young person who documents their crimes on social media should be locked away for life in order to protect the gene pool.

I don't think this is a case of someone documenting their crimes on social media so much as someone who doesn't know that photosyncing with iCloud is activated on the iPad.

Well, she does now.

He couldn't help himself, he just had to get on you tube, now he will never get it back. Obviously should of tracked her down before going all media.

That won't help with LoJack or someone who gets Hell to freeze and a cell company to trace the signal, but will eliminate just about every other way to track down a stolen phone/pad, since Apple happily registers stolen serial numbers under new accounts.

I lost my first digital camera on a plane. Took stuff out of my carryon to get the spare battery for my Libretto and, apparently, forgot to put the camera back. This was back when the lowest digital point-and-shoot cost $500 so it was kind of a big deal. I called the airline and, of course, there was no camera found on the plane. But I know it was because I'd taken out the compact-flash card to transfer my vacation pics to the computer while I was on the plane. And I'd been bumped to first class and had a pretty cool musician as a seatmate. He didn't seem like the type to go rooting around under seats looking for loot.

What I'm saying is I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the thief is part of the crew that cleans planes between flights. That's where I'd start showing that picture around if I were serious about getting the ipad back.

Why not link to more of the photos? I'm sure the power of the intarwebs could have this solved within hours.

I agree with your comment, unless she is some bag lady or invisible homeless person but yeah he should of put out more photos, if anybody that knows her owns a computer she should be found. Of course still no guarantee he will get the iPad back.

Pop quiz, hotshot. You lose your $500 iPad, and a couple of days later photos of an incredibly hot chick in various states of undress and playfulness start popping up on your stream. The pictures are getting more and more graphic. You have tracking software so you have somewhat of an ability to locate it, but the tracking software will cease to function in 24 hours.

Wise_Guy:Pop quiz, hotshot. You lose your $500 iPad, and a couple of days later photos of an incredibly hot chick in various states of undress and playfulness start popping up on your stream. The pictures are getting more and more graphic. You have tracking software so you have somewhat of an ability to locate it, but the tracking software will cease to function in 24 hours.

Wise_Guy:Pop quiz, hotshot. You lose your $500 iPad, and a couple of days later photos of an incredibly hot chick in various states of undress and playfulness start popping up on your stream. The pictures are getting more and more graphic. You have tracking software so you have somewhat of an ability to locate it, but the tracking software will cease to function in 24 hours.

Soup4Bonnie:I can't work any of those iAnythings. My neanderthal digits and reptillian brain have me wanting to smash my wife's stuff every time I pick it up.

I guess what I'm saying is, you can leave your ishiat around me and have no worries. Well, I might step on it. Or sit on it. But I won't steal it.

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A place I worked at years ago did mostly PC service (like everyone else). But, every once in a great while we would get iStuff. There's just something about apple products. Merely touching them makes me feel skeevy.

KangTheMad:Wise_Guy: Pop quiz, hotshot. You lose your $500 iPad, and a couple of days later photos of an incredibly hot chick in various states of undress and playfulness start popping up on your stream. The pictures are getting more and more graphic. You have tracking software so you have somewhat of an ability to locate it, but the tracking software will cease to function in 24 hours.

MylesHeartVodak:He mentions contacting the police? She didn't steal it. He lost it. Finder's Keepers. She may have even bought it, in good faith, from whoever did find it.

Are there functioning adults out there that really think "finders keepers" is a thing? Also speaking from direct experience, buying something "in good faith" that turns out to stolen can result in much more trouble than you may imagine.

Granted, if the guy hasn't reported it stolen (and it doesn't sound like he has) then it isn't stolen.

A Shambling Mound:MylesHeartVodak: He mentions contacting the police? She didn't steal it. He lost it. Finder's Keepers. She may have even bought it, in good faith, from whoever did find it.

Are there functioning adults out there that really think "finders keepers" is a thing? Also speaking from direct experience, buying something "in good faith" that turns out to stolen can result in much more trouble than you may imagine.

Granted, if the guy hasn't reported it stolen (and it doesn't sound like he has) then it isn't stolen.

I'd like to add that anyone who turns off location tracking for whatever tinfoil hat reason they may choose deserves whatever they get when they lose the device they deliberately rendered untrackable. Which is nothing.

ChubbyTiger:KangTheMad: Wise_Guy: Pop quiz, hotshot. You lose your $500 iPad, and a couple of days later photos of an incredibly hot chick in various states of undress and playfulness start popping up on your stream. The pictures are getting more and more graphic. You have tracking software so you have somewhat of an ability to locate it, but the tracking software will cease to function in 24 hours.

A Shambling Mound:MylesHeartVodak: He mentions contacting the police? She didn't steal it. He lost it. Finder's Keepers. She may have even bought it, in good faith, from whoever did find it.

Are there functioning adults out there that really think "finders keepers" is a thing? Also speaking from direct experience, buying something "in good faith" that turns out to stolen can result in much more trouble than you may imagine.

Granted, if the guy hasn't reported it stolen (and it doesn't sound like he has) then it isn't stolen.

So, if the woman who has it now bought it on good faith from someone who found/stole it, is anyone committing any wrongdoing by making the photos public? Does the guy have any duty to de-auth the device on cloud sync?

whatshisname:MylesHeartVodak: He mentions contacting the police? She didn't steal it. He lost it. Finder's Keepers. She may have even bought it, in good faith, from whoever did find it.

Does that theory also work for parked cars?

ProfessorOhki:Fark It: MylesHeartVodak: He mentions contacting the police? She didn't steal it. He lost it. Finder's Keepers. She may have even bought it, in good faith, from whoever did find it.

His name and info is etched into the back. It doesn't matter how she acquired it, it's against the law to even possess stolen property.

/5:1 she's TSA

I bought a used book from the library once. There was a handwritten note on the inside cover that said, "To Steve." I guess I'm a criminal.

I bought my first iPod from a pawn shop for 30 bucks, the dude that hocked it etched his name in the back too. The thing still works to this day (though it doesn't hold a charge for long). Totally legit.

I'm not sure what the law would say about all the music it came with though, never did wipe the thing, just checked it out as is and got another one for my tunes, that thing was loaded with mostly good stuff!

f you leave your ipad on an airplane it isnt farking stolen. You lost the damned thing and they found it. They did NOT steal it. YOU lost it. If they are nice they will go to all the trouble to find your dumbass and return it. If not too bad.

mikaloyd:f you leave your ipad on an airplane it isnt farking stolen. You lost the damned thing and they found it. They did NOT steal it. YOU lost it. If they are nice they will go to all the trouble to find your dumbass and return it. If not too bad.

mikaloyd:f you leave your ipad on an airplane it isnt farking stolen. You lost the damned thing and they found it. They did NOT steal it. YOU lost it. If they are nice they will go to all the trouble to find your dumbass and return it. If not too bad.

Unfortunately the old "Finders keepers, losers weepers" defense wont hold up in court. If you take something that doesn't belong to you it's theft, regardless of circumstance.

If you end up with something, and you know who it belongs to and could return it but don't, that's theft. I realized this when I was a kid, and saw a man who had just come out of a bar climb into his pickup, dropping a wad of cash on the street. My first impulse was to wait until he drove away, and it would be mine free and clear. Almost as quickly, I realized that would be stealing; I knew it was his, and I knew he didn't mean to drop it on the ground. It would have been no different than stealing it out of his wallet, except there would have been almost no chance of my getting caught. I ran over to his truck, and waved him down to keep him from driving away. He was confused until I bent down and picked up the wad of money and handed it to him. He said he'd like to give me a reward, but the smallest bill he had was a twenty. This was probably 1980 (minimum wage was three thirty five an hour), twenty bucks was a lot of money. I told him not to worry about it. Make no mistake, money was hard to come by as a kid. I worked a couple of hours a day on average to make about thirty five dollars a month by delivering newspapers with my bicycle. That had no bearing on whether I would keep money that was not mine